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• Anthonia Maria Verkerk, Werkhoven († 1860)
• Adriaan Jacobus van Bladel, Tilburg Nederland († 1938)
• Arij van der Kooij, Maasland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1866)
• Elting, Valthe, Odoorn († 1860)
• Agatha Levering, Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH) († 1860)
• Adriana Kniknie, Baarle-Nassau († 1909)
• Adrianus Jacobus Bladel, van, Gemeente Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1938)
• Andreas Gerardus Soethof, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1872)
• Aaron Mortimer Myers, Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica
• Adriaan Jacobus van Bladel, Tilburg († 1938)

• Adriana Vissers (39), Dinteloord en Prinsenland Noord Brabant (NL)
• Agatha Levering (0), Egmond Binnen (gem. Bergen, NH)
• Albert Klazes van der Woude (49), Baarderadeel, Friesland, Nederland
• Aaltje van den Berg (29), Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Angelus Buysse (70), Boekhoute (B)
• Aaltje Aarts (Aards) Kloek (Klock) (79), Oldebroek, Gld, The Netherlands
• Adrianus Joosen (1), Breda
• Aaltje van den Berg (29), Dedemsvaart
• Aaltje Jans Siertsema (88), Uithuizen
• Anne Isabella Milbanke (67), St George's Terrace, Regent's Park, Middlesex, Royaume-Uni

• 1831 » David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone († 1900)
• 1859 » Horace Hutchinson, English golfer († 1932)
• 1862 » Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (d.1940)
• 1876 » Fred Conrad Koch, American biochemist and endocrinologist († 1948)
• 1879 » Pierre Gilliard, Swiss author and academic († 1962)
• 1882 » Simeon Price, American golfer († 1945)
• 1883 » Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd President of Turkey († 1986)
• 1888 » Royal Rife, American microbiologist and instrument maker († 1971)
• 1890 » Edith Grace White, American ichthyologist († 1975)
• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)

• 1818 » Matthew Lewis, English author and playwright (b. 1775)
• 1823 » Grace Elliott, Scottish courtesan and spy (b. c.1754)
• 1830 » Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (b. 1768)
• 1862 » Edward Gibbon Wakefield, English politician (b. 1796)
• 1882 » Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician, 13th Governor of Alabama (b. 1799)
• 1890 » Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet, linguist and theologist (b. 1843)
• 1891 » Ion C. Brătianu, Romanian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1821)
• 1910 » Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (b. 1856)
• 1913 » Louis Perrier, Swiss architect and politician (b. 1849)
• 1920 » Levi P. Morton, American politician, 22nd United States Vice President (b. 1824)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Pieter
6. Willem
7. Gerrit
8. Jacob
9. Petrus
10. Jacobus
11. Adrianus
12. Dirk
13. Arie
14. Hendrikus
15. Klaas
16. John

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Adriana
7. Catharina
8. Hendrika
9. Wilhelmina
10. Aaltje
11. Grietje
12. Neeltje
13. Trijntje
14. Mary
15. Antje
16. Elizabeth

• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
• March 5 » Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• March 28 » First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
• June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
• August 5 » Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
• October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.
• December 26 » The first ever inter-club English association football match takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield.

The temperature on May 16, 1860 was about 12.7 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%.